The Sad, Twisted Tale of Slate Man: the Forgotten Brother. Okay, maybe not so sad. He is a bit of a jerk.

Now let’s examine the backstory of MFUJ Vocalist and second guitarist Slate. Yeah, we know you don’t want to but that’s kind of the point. He was always the unwanted one.

We’ve already told you about how Brick created MFUJ. Well, Slate’s story is heavily intertwined with Brick’s. And no it wasn’t just contrived to give Brick a nemesis. Slate wasn’t always the tattooed, foulmouthed, bearded nuisance that he is today. He used to not have tattoos or a beard. Remember how we told you that Brick didn’t remember much about his childhood? Well that’s because he had a twin brother growing up. A rebellious, slightly violent twin who was so jealous of all the attention Brick received that he once tried to smash brick’s skull against a wall. Yeah, that was Slate. Brick lost years of his memory and Slate was locked away in a cell in a place where he could never harm anyone again, Elsewhere.

While Brick was busy with his journey towards becoming a guitar hero or something equally trite and corny as that, Slate was slowly going insane in his dark cell as if he weren’t already crazy.  Of course this wouldn’t be much of a story if he remained that way forever. One day, when he was busy singing bad hard rock songs to himself, a Shadowy Figure snuck into his cell and began filling his mind with thoughts of revenge. It was at this point that Slate gathered enough resolve to break out of his rusty cage song foreshadowing and track down Brick to seek vengeance for losing so many years of his life.

Once free, he attempted to steal Brick’s beloved blue guitar, but was thwarted when he was caught sneaking out of the gamespot building. Brick confronted Slate about the theft and the two of them were close to breaking into a massive melee until G Mod stopped them and got Slate to sign on and be the lead vocalist for MFUJ. Brick was of course upset at the decision. Unfortunately, he was trapped in a  four record contract from which he could not escape. He just had to deal with it.

Recording sessions for MFUJ’s first album did not go smoothly. Brick and Slate split up to record their individual tracks. Slate had Slate’s Theme, Slate’s Reprise, Slate MAn (yeah, he was a bit narcissistic) and Banished? Brick wrote Brick’s Theme, Her Theme parts 1-3, gonna listen to some pink floyd, Rant (portal to the Abyss) and Byzantium part 2. Things were best however when the whole band came together to write the album’s most enduring tracks: Byzantium (lyrics by William Butler Yeats), Cockroach Colored Wings and I Don’t Wanna Be the Same.

Of course tension did not decrease when they worked on their later albums, but eventually the band was able to keep Slate sedated enough that he was only a danger to himself but not others. Once they were free of their contract after they finished their fourth LP, Love, Death, Loss and Redemption, Slate seemed to have mellowed out. Or had he? With former manager/producer G Mod on his way to MFUJ’s new independent record label, MFUJSF, who knows what that might mean for the members of MFUJ as they now seem on edge for some reason.

Stay tuned…